Pork Balls with Beans and Tomato

Hah, you are making pork and beans!” said my raised-in-America son when he saw me working on this recipe. In responding I allowed as how it could be described as pork with beans, but I begged him please never to call it pork and beans. No offense intended, my Boston friends.

The ground pork is mixed with chopped onion, parsley, an egg, and milk-soaked bread, and shaped into the tiniest of meatballs. These are cooked with a faintly garlicky tomato sauce, and then combined with